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Phone2Gearth for S60 converts GPS data to Google Earth KML
Written by LBSzone
Thursday, 20 April 2006
Phone2Gearth for S60 is a clever application enabling S60 (and S80)device users to use their favorite smartphone along with a bluetooth enabled GPS and enjoy the results using the popular Google Earth viewing client.
Here'es the premise... Phone2Gearth from Real Track Mobile is an easy Nokia Series 60 GPS aplication that allows to log tracks which are directly saved as Google Earth KML files - Note: KML is the proprietary data format that is read by the Google Earth client.
A simple, 4 step process is all it takes:
Enable/Set GPS Bluetooth
Click "Start" to begin capturing your GPS log
Export (via Bluetooth or file) to KML format
Import and view your log within Google Earth
For a sample, a blogger at "Digital Geography" has used the app and enjoyed the benefits to record some favorite placemarks. Imagine the next time you travel, you record locations and set placemarks at all your favorite places. Then you associate an image/photo with each place and you share with usings using the free Google Earth client.
Note: supports the following S60 devices: Nokia 3230, Nokia 6670, Nokia 3600, Nokia 7650, Nokia 7610, Nokia 6620, SendoX, Nokia 6680, Nokia 6681, Nokia N-Gage QD, Siemens SX1, Nokia N-Gage, Nokia N-Gage-Cingular, Nokia N-Gage-AT&T, Nokia N-Gage-TMobile, Nokia N70, Nokia 6630, Nokia N90, Nokia N91, Nokia 3620, Nokia 3660, Nokia 3620-AT&T, Nokia 3620-TMobile, Nokia 3660-Cingular, Nokia 6260, Nokia Series 60, Nokia 3620-Cingular, Nokia 3660-AT&T, Nokia 3660-TMobile, Nokia 3650, Nokia 6682 6680, Nokia 6600, Nokia 3230, Nokia N90
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